Fire near Highland (GB)

57.16°N, 3.64°W · first detected on 16 July at 03:34

What the satellites measured

This fire was tracked from 16 July at 03:34 to 17 July at 22:00, that is 2 days, through 138 satellite detections. The detected extent reaches 1,100 ha.

Detected extent: 1,100 ha
Cumulative power: 1,801 MW
Peak power: 108 MW
Detections: 138

“Detected extent” is not “burned area”: it is the union of the ground footprints of the satellite pixels, and a 375 m pixel counts in full even when only a forest edge is burning. Compared with press figures it is in practice one and a half to three times the area reported. Detections taken at the edge of the scan swath, too coarse to measure anything at all, are excluded. These figures come from thermal satellite detection and are not an official assessment: only the local fire and civil protection authorities are authoritative.

Replay how the fire spread

The map is centred on this fire and loads only its detections. The timeline below covers the whole fire, from the first satellite pass to the last. “1 h” shows what is burning within an hour of the chosen moment : the map then follows the power curve below and empties when it falls. “12 h” stacks twelve hours , as the home map does, where stacking avoids an empty screen between two satellite passes. Both are true, but they say different things.

How the radiative power evolved

One point per satellite pass: the sum of the fire radiative power measured over the fire. This is the curve that says whether the fire eased off or picked up again, which no cumulative figure shows. The window covers 30 days; beyond that, clustering would merge two successive fires in the same place.

Fire dynamics

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Satellite passes in detail

Pass	Power	Detections	Sensor
30 July at 15:25	25 MW	3	N
29 July at 04:11	1 MW	1	N
28 July at 16:03	3 MW	1	N
27 July at 05:53	5 MW	3	N21
27 July at 05:10	10 MW	7	N20
27 July at 04:49	8 MW	7	N
27 July at 04:13	15 MW	10	N21
27 July at 03:28	14 MW	9	N20
27 July at 03:09	3 MW	1	N
25 July at 15:21	3 MW	1	N
25 July at 14:44	188 MW	6	N21
25 July at 13:57	43 MW	6	N20
25 July at 06:21	284 MW	13	Aqua
25 July at 05:47	61 MW	32	N20
25 July at 05:28	349 MW	85	N
25 July at 04:51	214 MW	58	N21
25 July at 04:06	54 MW	27	N20
25 July at 03:47	117 MW	29	N
25 July at 03:11	105 MW	24	N21
24 July at 15:38	58 MW	7	N
24 July at 15:01	1,751 MW	34	N21
24 July at 14:17	709 MW	25	N20
24 July at 13:57	643 MW	44	N
24 July at 13:21	513 MW	40	N21
24 July at 12:04	317 MW	4	Terra
24 July at 05:10	1 MW	1	N21
24 July at 04:26	41 MW	10	N20
24 July at 04:06	21 MW	7	N
24 July at 03:30	46 MW	17	N21
23 July at 22:38	184 MW	5	Terra
23 July at 16:18	10 MW	1	Aqua
23 July at 16:16	19 MW	2	N20
23 July at 15:55	15 MW	3	N
23 July at 15:23	9 MW	1	N21
17 July at 22:00	66 MW	1	Terra
17 July at 17:24	77 MW	2	Aqua
17 July at 16:27	42 MW	4	N20
17 July at 16:10	79 MW	8	N
17 July at 15:46	201 MW	2	Aqua
17 July at 15:33	125 MW	6	N21
17 July at 14:49	138 MW	8	N20
17 July at 14:27	185 MW	8	N
17 July at 13:53	157 MW	7	N21
16 July at 15:53	407 MW	23	N21
16 July at 15:06	69 MW	9	N20
16 July at 14:12	22 MW	2	N21
16 July at 13:25	21 MW	3	N20
16 July at 11:47	36 MW	2	Terra
16 July at 05:15	63 MW	15	N20
16 July at 04:19	58 MW	13	N21
16 July at 03:34	56 MW	25	N20

2 other fires near Highland (GB)

Separate fires, apart in time or in space, not pieces of this one. A single municipality can have several over one summer, and the forest of Fontainebleau alone covers 172 square kilometres.

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